List of massacres in Iraq

List of massacres in Iraq
The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in the area of modern Iraq.
Pre-20th Century
Pre-Saddam 20th Century
May 4, 1924, Massacre of 4th May, 1924; Assyrian Levies massacre an estimated 200 people after a Turkmen shop keeper and Assyrian soldier get into an argument.
August 1933, the Simele massacre in Northern Iraq: the Iraqi army massacred 600–3,000 Assyrian Christians.
June 1–2, 1941, Farhud, Baghdad; 175-780 deaths, considered "the beginning of the end of the Jewish community of Iraq".
July 14, 1959, Kirkuk massacre of 1959; Kurdish members of the Iraqi Communist Party target Turkmens leaving an estimated 20 dead. This was followed by Kurdish soldiers from the Fourth Brigade targeting Turkmen residential areas with mortars, causing the destruction of 120 homes. Between 31 and 79 Turkmen were killed with 130 wounded. The Iraqi government referred to the incident as a "massacre".
Saddam Era
January 27, 1969 Baghdad hangings.
September 16, 1969, the Iraqi military headed by Lieutenant Abdul Karim al-Jahayshee massacred 47 people in the Assyrian village of Soriya (Ṣawriyā) including the Chaldean priest Ḥannā Yaʻqūb Qāshā and left 22 wounded.
1975, Najaf purges. Over 100 Shi’ite clerics killed and 1250 arrested.
February 5, 1977, Safar uprising. Despite brutally enforced ban on public religiousness, thousands of people defy it and head to Karbala during the Arba'een Pilgrimage. Hundreds were killed and thousands arrested by the regime.
1978–1979 Ba'athist Arabization campaigns in North Iraq; 2,500 to 12,500
50,000 to 70,000 Shi'a, and 50,000 opposition activists, communists, Kurds and other minorities disappeared into Iraqi prisons in the 1980s
May 7, 1980, Persecution of Feyli Kurds under Saddam Hussein, Nationwide; 15,000–25,000 Feyli Kurds were targeted genocide via exportation and forced relocations.
July 8, 1982, Dujail Massacre, Dujail; 148 deaths.
May 10, 1983. Saddam ordered further arrest of all Hakim family. Hundreds were killed and buried in mass graves.
In July and August 1983, on the orders of President Saddam Hussein over 8,000 men and boys of the Barzani Kurds, some as young as 13, were killed by the Ba'athist Iraq.
1984, Abu Ghraib prison massacre, Baghdad Governorate; 4,000 executed in purge
1986–1989, Anfal genocide, Nationwide: 50,000-182,000 Kurds and other Iraqi minorities killed during Iran–Iraq War.
March 16, 1988, Halabja poison gas attack, Halabja: 5,000+ deaths; Iraqi government used chemical weapons on Kurdish town; condemned as an act of genocide (The aforementioned Anfal genocide).
13 February 1991, Amiriyah shelter bombing, 408 civilians killed by US airstrike.
March 1 – April 5, 1991 Iraqi uprisings, Nationwide: 25,000–180,000 killed (mostly civilians).
After 2003
August 1, 2004, 2004 Iraq churches attacks, Baghdad and Mosul; 12 died, 71 injured.
October 24, 2004 Massacre of New Iraqi Army recruits by Sunni insurgents, 49 killed.
November 19, 2005 Haditha killings, Haditha 24 Iraqi civilians were killed by United States Marines.
March 12, 2006 Mahmudiyah killings on by U.S. Army soldiers, 4 killed.
March 15, 2006, the Ishaqi incident, where four women and five children, one aged five months were allegedly killed by U.S. Forces. This was denied by the Americans, who said a building collapsed during a firefight, killing four people—a suspect, two women and a child.
March 2006, US troops killed 4 Iraq prisoners.
Between May 7 and 8, 2006, 51 bodies were found in Baghdad, all handcuffed, blindfolded and shot in the head and abdomen.
July 9, 2006, Hay al Jihad massacre on by Shia militia, 40 killed.
April 23, 2007, 2007 Mosul massacre, Mosul; 23 died; the murders were considered to be a reprisal for the honor killing of a 17-year-old Yazidi girl.
On April 17, 2007, 51 bodies of Iraqi civilians and military personnel, who were killed in the previous two years, were found in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad.
June 29, 2007, Al Ahamir Massacre, Al Ahamir, 10-14 Iraqi civilians were killed by Al Qaeda.
On June 30, 2007, 35 to 40 bodies were recovered from a recently dug mass grave in the town of Ferris, south of Fallujah, most likely victims of sectarian violence.
July 16, 2007, massacre of Shiite villagers in a village in Diyala province on by Sunni insurgents, 29 killed.
September 16, 2007, Nisour Square massacre, Baghdad: Blackwater Baghdad shootings by a private military company, 17 killed. The private military company, Blackwater Security Consulting, shot at Iraqi civilians killing 17 and injuring 20 in Nisour Square, Baghdad while escorting a US embassy convoy.
Following the conclusion of the 2007 Diyala province military campaign dozens of mass graves were found. It is unclear who was responsible although Al-Qaeda is suspected.
April 4, 2010, insurgents dressed as US and Iraqi soldiers killed 25 people including 5 women in a village south of Baghdad. They were linked to the Awakening movement. They were handcuffed and shot in the head or chest. Seven were found alive in handcuffs. Major General Qassim Atta spokesman for the Iraqi security forces' Baghdad operations said Al-Qaeda in Iraq was behind this.
October 31, 2010, Baghdad church attack, Baghdad; 58 died; Islamic State of Iraq attacked a Catholic church.
April 8, 2011, Camp Ashraf raid, Camp Ashraf; 34 unarmed members of the People's Mujahedin of Iran were killed by Iraqi security forces. 300+ injured.
June 10, 2014 – August 8, 2015, Mass Executions in ISIS Occupied Mosul where over 6,539 people have been killed.
August 2014 – Sinjar massacre, about 5,000 Yazidis massacred by ISIS.
January 28, 2015 – Barwana massacre, 70 unarmed boys and men by Shia militas (allegedly).
September 1, 2016 – Islamic State reportedly executed nine Mosul youths with a chainsaw for being part of an opposing group.
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